Quickstart

This is the shortest path for a new invited user on macOS, Linux, or WSL. It uses the command line from installation through the first saved result.

1. Install

curl -LsSf https://getanalog.io/install | sh

The installer adds the analog command to your PATH. Windows, Homebrew, pipx, and pip routes are in Install.

2. Connect your account

During the private alpha, you need an invite code to create an account:

analog signup

Your browser opens to verify your email and accept the invite. When it finishes, your account is connected to this machine. There is nothing to copy into a config file.

3. Extract a page

The first extraction downloads Analog’s built-in browser if it is not already installed. This is a one-time download of about 150 MB.

analog get https://quotes.toscrape.com/js/

Analog prints a short preview with the page’s sections, record counts, fields, and coverage notes. It also saves the result locally under a handle like 20260719-k7m2p9.

4. Reopen the result

analog open latest

This reopens the result without fetching the page again. You now have a saved result you can inspect, query, export, or compare.

Continue from here

• Work with results shows how to inspect, query, export, and compare saved results.
• Fetching covers pagination, load-more buttons, and collapsed details.
• Extract a page shows the same workflow in Python.
• MCP server connects Analog to Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible agents.

If your setup is different

• Already have an account, or connecting another machine? Follow Authenticate.
• Using an interactive shell without a browser? The browserless login flow is also in Authenticate.
• No account yet? The analog assess command and local Markdown conversion do not require one.